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On The Verge: Letters From Bandcamp, Issue No. 17

Canadian edition

In Letters From Bandcamp, we round up five of our new favorite Bandcamp discoveries in the hope that your friend’s cousin’s sister can finally get some buzz.

Somehow, and I don’t know how, this issue of Letters From Bandcamp turned into a Bands From Canada thing. It just happened that way. There seems to be a lot happening sonically in the Great White North these days. You’ll find no Rush covers here, but you will find lo-fi harmonies, crushing garage shrieks, and cloudy fuzzballs of synth-pop. To quote James Blake covering Joni Mitchell, “Oh, Canada.”

Average Times s/t by Average Times
Ottawa foursome describe their sound as “barf and sugar mixed together.” We listen and agree, but we’ll add a dash of snot and wager that the sugar is specifically from gummi bears.